This year Tom Cruise will not be taking to the skies over Cannes Film Festival. There’ll be no octogenarian men cracking their whips as hapless Nazis fall about the place screeching. But look beyond the headlines on a dismaying lack of the old Hollywood razzle-dazzle on this year’s Croisette, and you’ll find an embarrassment of riches.

Slimming down the ridiculously stacked rollcall for Cannes’ 2026 edition to a bitesized list is ahellip;

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